Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder, in fact, if the public quest for a candidate with a vision is really serious and sincere or simply the outcropping of an unspoken national desire to experience something emotional about the campaign as well as about the country one believes in. The failures of the Reagan Administration may have made people wary of looking at their country emotionally, and so the search for a candidate with a vision may be the people's way of asking their leaders to create emotions for them. Because of their performances on television, particularly the Marvin Kalb interviews, several of the candidates...
...works out regularly, but his campaign schedule has curtailed his twice- weekly tennis matches. He still quotes from memory lines from his favorite author, the German writer Hermann Hesse, whose visionary novels (Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Magister Ludi) describe the quest for enlightenment and serenity. That should be good inspiration for the next President of South Korea...
Confounding predictions of a neck- and- neck race, the ruling party candidate handily wins a five- year presidential term amid charges of fraud. -- Facing the worst riots in 20 years, the Israeli military comes down hard on Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza. -- Reagan' s quest to secure new aid for the contras gets an inadvertent boost from Nicaragua' s Ortega brothers...
...Paul Walker, co-director of the organization for Peace and International Security welcomed the agreement as a positive sign in the overall quest for effective disarmament. He said he and his colleagues wished not only to voice their approval of the INF treaty, but also to convince members of the Senate to support...
...candidate laugh at himself? If he cannot sometimes see the absurdity of touring cow barns in Iowa and making small talk in New Hampshire, if he does not occasionally find it odd to be spending two years and up to $50 million in quest of a harrowing job that pays $200,000 a year, then maybe, just maybe, we have finally found the character flaw that does indeed make him unfit to be President...